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THE MORNING OREOOXIAX. MONDAY, MARCH 25. 1918.
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WIFE OF PRINCE TO
RETURN TO STAGE
California Girl Says Life in
Oriental Home Is Unbear
able to American.
BEAUTIFUL WIFE OF FAMOUS MILLIONAIRE FLUNG ER. WHO
IS SUINO FOR DIVORCE.
former Star of "The F'atal AYcd
ding" and "The ClimherV Will
n-ptrt Turkish Court Life
In Vaudeville Miov.
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NEW TOrtK. March 24. (Special.)
rrltiresa Ila.'Mn, who ui Olita Hum-
phrey. star of Th Kul Wed
dinar." The Climbers," and other ho
before she married Prince Ibrahim
lluun. cousin of the present Khedive
f Egypt. In London last April, haa
decided that It la more fun to be an
American actress than an Egyptian
Prtnceea. and that If she gts the kind
ef a vaudeville art she wants she will
net bo back to Prince Ibrahim.
On advice of Lillian P-ussoll and
other friends, the Princess advertised
for a sketch which would give her the
chance, she believes, to show her fsm
tllarlty with Oriental court life, She
expressed hr need as follows:
"A sketch for a !0-nilnute act In
vaudeville desired. Oriental storr
treating with the marriage of an
American lady to an Oriental Prince.
Address Princess Hassan. Hector's Ho
tel." "An I groin fr to return to Prince Ibra
him?" asked the Princess In answer to
question. "Well. I am here, am I not?
I am Informed through Turkish diplo
matic circles that I will receive no In
come from the Prince while I am In
this country. But that will not move
me. The life 1 led was Impossible. No
American girl could endure It. I was
the victim of their ages-old treatment
of women, Such treatment waa In
tolerable. The Princess was born in California
and went on the staff there when she
waa IS years old. Her first husband
was Kdvln Mordaunt, who waa leading
mn In "The Fatal Wedding." She
ilvcrced him.
GUESTS MURDER HOST
Italian Shot I tract After lie Serves
Hrfrohmcnl.
t.S ANilKLKf. Marcn It. (Special.)
The most baffling murtl'r mystery
whl-h the police have had to deal with
In months raujied a general alarm to
r sent ut over the city at o'clock
tMa aftrmn for tlie arrest of two
mn wh shot In the back and killed
J..-f.h Sldano. 40 East Kitty-third
street, ax he was offering them the
hpia1tEy of hta home.
Mrs. Soldtno la a ficure of (real
lmpori4rr in the es of the police,
as II le through her conflicting stories
t t the truth !a expected to coma to
light. She atubborr.iy sticks to tha
desertion that the killing; was done by
two stranatrs. who demanded money
from her husband or blackmail, and
with whom ho had had fierce quarrel
earlier In the day.
The police have established, how
ever, that htit one man railed on the
Soldanos this morn!nc Andrea rasa
no. brother of Mrs. Soldano. Confronted
with this fart, the latter admitted that
her brother had called and that she
waa the causa of a fight In which Pa
aano was thrown oat of the house by
Soldano. armed with a bat. The. two
men who came In the afternoon, she
says, were total etrancers, and none
jf the neighbors remrmbera ever having
een them before. Soldano welcomed
them, however, and had Just offered
ihem wtne. when on shot htm In the
back, killing Mm Instantly. Moth fled.
he dragnet ha since landed five sus
pects In the Tombs, but none haa
been Identified ur to this hour.
SWIMMER RIDES TURTLE
Montcr Conquered by Man 'Whom
It Attack.
TALM BKACII. Fla.. March :t. (Spe
cial. I Con'iuerlna a monster sea turtle,
that attacked him when he was bath
ln here today. John Jordan, of Buf
falo. N". T.. twice succeeded In setting
on the monsters back, and on the sec
ond attempt suceeoded In riding htm to
shore, where help came and a noose
waa put over its head. It Is the first
lime a turtle ever has attacked a man
In these waters. Jordan e a brother-in-law
of William J. Conners. tie New
York politician, whom lie was visiting
here.
Mr. Jordan entered the water alone
n front of the Conners residence and
was swimming J')0 feet from shore
when the turtle mse under him. strik
ing at him with Ita head. To save hlm
lf Mr. Jordan Jun ped on lt bark.
The turtle swam for deep water and
love, unhealing Its rider. Conilnc te
the surface. It again struck at him
viclotislv. 1'naMe to swim awar. Jordan
cam climbed to the turtle's back and
nMns his feet a a rudder and holding
to the nippers, he ateered It toward
shore.
Meantime. Miss Alice Conners. seeing
his plicht from the ahore. summoned
two Japanese servants, who rushed out
with a clothe line, forming a noose,
which thy cot over the turtle's head
sfter a struacle in which bot'i were
hltten. The t'irtle measured five ard a
balf feet In diameter.
SEATTLE PARTY MISSING
Auto Kxrurston of Three Into Me
lt Nut Heard I'roni Again.
SAN rIEiO. Cal.. .Mar. h it. iSpe-
1.4I. Paul Hopkins, ased S yrars. a
retired business man of Seattle, left
here in an automobile for Yuma Feb
ruary 2 4. accompanied by his Invalid
son. Edward Hopkins, and Charles Kd
liiundjion. of San Incgo. Search was
started last Thursday, but ofrlcers here
and In Imperial Valley have not been
!! to hnd trace of the missing men
or their machine.
It is believed they ventured Into
Mexico, were mistaken for spies, and
have either been killed or are being
ti-ld pns.-nrs. Vouns; lfpktn and
Kdr.iundx 011 have mlnlnc Interests nar t
Keario. in the Stale of Sorioro.
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EFFORT IS WASTED
Carnegie Foundation Criti
cises Needless Schools,
LAWYERS TOO NUMEROUS
Report Trace Plsrejpecl for Judl
rlary to Multiplication With
out Training Half Mil
lion In Pensions Paid.
NEW TORK. March Zt. "L'nneces-
ary educational Institutions continue
to "contribute to the deterioration 01
educational sUnaards." In the Judg
ment of the Camele Foundation lor
the Advancement of Teaching, the sixth
annual report of which was made pub
lic today- These Institutions, tne re
port says, are developed for personal,
local and denominational reasons and
result In the withdrawal of support
from necessary and worthy Institutions.
Students, says the report, who should
turn towsrd Industrial training are de
flected elsewhere throuah advertise
ments, scholarships, and other stipends.
to tha waste of their anilities ana 01
public funds. It continues:
-The Increase In the number and site
of post-craduate schools SO per cent
In the last decade and ten-fold In the
last ae years has been much greater
than the natural need. Poor and pre
tentious araduate schools, conducted
nh the funds of undergraduate col
leges and attended chiefly by subsi
dised student, often merely Impair the
appreciation of good undergraduate
teaching and hamper real rwi-".
throneh the multiplication of mechan
ical seminars, dissertations, and the
like. The rare and expense 01 a aooa
araduate school can be borne only by
a few large universities.
ttffort Oftea implicated.
"Professional education, also. Is ham
pered bv an enormous Bupllcatlun of
facilities, resulting In great financial
waste, and often In a competition In
low entrance requirements and poor
instruction. Rome states have four,
five, seven and nine schools of en
ginrerina each: New York City alone
has six. and Pennsylvania has IS. five
of these having fewer than 40 students
each. Fortunately, the engineering so
cieties and the Foundation are now co
operating to bring about an elimination
through Insistence upon proper stan
dards. "In legal education there is an Im
provement In Instruction and an In
creasing emphasis on better standards
by authoritative bodies like the Amerl.
can Bar Association, but poor schools
still turn out three times as many law
yrrs aa the country needs, and one
half of our states have no adequate ed
ucational requirement for admission to
the bar. The miscarriage of Justice,
the law's delajs. the cost of litigation,
public disregard of law. and disrespect
for the Judiciary, all proceed In no
small dearee from this multiplication
of til-trained lawyers. The bar is pe
culiarly responsible, since It alone of
all professions practically fixes ita own
requirements for admission to practice."
Th- report notes that unworthy
me.il.-al schools passed out of existence
in the previous year.
Peaaloaera Maw amber 37S.
The report covers the year ended
September 30 last. The endowment
amounted at that time to III.IIJ.OOO.
comprising Mr. Carnegle'a original gift
of tl.000.00 In 1905. an accumulation
from Income of 11.1:3.004. and $1,000.
0'0 received in lll as the first Install
ment of Mr. CarneKle's additional gift
of V0.n00 In 10H.
Of the Income of 150.00 for the year
11-111. J.-.:. 000 waa expended in re
tiring allowances and pensions. $3.
000 in general administration, and $16..
00 In educational publication. Fifteen
recipients of allowances died during the
year. Including Professors Bowdltch. of
Harvard. Carson of Cornell. Harrison of
Y'lrglnla. and March of Lafayette.
Russia of Welts I Kagan and Vasllia
l.lchatoff. held by the Government, at
Tacoma. charged with being anarchists,
were adopted at a mass meeting of
Socialists at Preamland Pavilion to
day. Prior to the well-attendaU meet
ing the Socialists paradcti the down
town streets with only one flag, the
red banner of Socialism, displayed at
the head of the column.
Kagan and LlchatofT, who, their de
fenders say. are Russian Socialists and
not anarchists, escaped from the quick
silver mines In Siberia and made their
way to Tacoma. where they were ar
rested and ordered deported. The Gov
ernment rontenda that one of the men
entered American territory on a false
passport and that both of them bor
rowed the money necessary to gain ad
mittance. The Socialists assert that
the charges against the men were
trumped up at the Instigation of the
Russian government so they would be
sent back to Siberia to serve the sen
tences Imposed for political activity.
The resolutiona demanding their re
lease will be aent to Representative
Berger. who haa already exerted him
self In their behalf. A collection of
$100 was taken at the meeting to pro
vide a defense fund for the refugees.
ilCTOB TAKES OWN LIFE
CHAItLKS STERLING PIES OX
STEAMER CAMPAXIA.
Deceased Waa on W'my to Appear In
Vaudeville With famous Iog
Actor 'Patsy.
XKff YORK. March 24. (Special.)
Charles Sterling, an aged English ac
tor, traveling with his Irish terrier.
Patsy, killed himself aboard the steam
ship Campania, of the Cunard line,
which arrived hero today. He waa
burled at sea Saturday.
Sterling was coming here to appear
In vaudeville with his dog. From the
moment he went on board the steam
ship at Liverpool it was observed that
he waa melancholy. He became more
and more depressed as the vessel ap
proached the American Coast and was
finally put Into a hospital, where he
was treated by the surgeon on board.
The nurse In attendance left Ster
ling alone for a moment on Saturday
and when he returned found the patient
hanging by the neck from an overhead
tron beam. He had torn a bed sheet
Into a strip, tied it about his neck and
was dead when the nurse returned to
the hospital.
Patsy, the dog actor, who waa left
an "orphsn" by the suicide of his mas
ter, is nut an American rltlsen, but a
British subject and cannot be taken
In charge by the Ignited States Immi-K-ratlon
authorities. He wss left on
board the Campania and will be taken
back to Liverpool and turned over to
the British authorities, there.
JEALOUSY KILLS BEAR
POLAR CZAR OF NEW YORK ZOO
DIES IX PREXZIED RAGE.
flarttare Cmm Re f'sired.
Mv mr-hnl'! treatment will cure,
r'ipture. 1 'onsultat,n fre. H. i '. I.'ne
Iruni. ;i's Vainluii St.. l'ciUaud. Oi.
DEPORTATION IS FOUGHT
SorialiM Prolot AgaltKt Sending
Anarrlii-1- Hack to Russia.
SK..TTLF March H. Resolutions
protesting agiiust the dcportatluo te
Sight or Hated Sliver King Making
Love to Shaggy Spouse Is Too
.Much for Old Rex.
XRW TORK. March 84. (Special.)
Rex. once the biggest, proudest and
meanest Polar hear in the Bronx roo.
Is dead from a Jealous rage Into which
he threw himself In the belief that he
had been supplanted In the affections
of Mrs, Rex by Silver. King, another
prominent Polar bear.
Rex had two wife murders to his
credit and it waa to save the life of
the third Mrs. Rex that the bear was
removed from Rex' cage and placed
In a separate one. adjoining that of
Silver King. After that Rex never was
himself.
At once violent hatred sprang up be
tween Silver King and Rex. They
roared and quarrelled over the head of
Mrs, Rex. who lurched about her own
rage, apparently delighted that slio
was the cause of auch dissension.
Rex beat at the bars of his cage all
Monday, gradually hla intense anger
reduced him to weakness. He lay down
and refused to answer the roaring
challenges from his rival. In a few
hours Rex groaned, keeled over on his
back and lay still.
Mrs. Hex Is now free to become Mrs.
Silver Klngj
Get your dog entered before Saturday.
MRS. THOMAS' SUIT
AROUSES INTEREST
Broadway Knows ex-Boy
Banker and "Teddy" Ger
rard, Co-Respondent.
UNHAPPY WIFE IS BEAUTY
Former Multi-Millionaire's Money
Strewn Career In Wall Street
Is Still Talked Of Cred
itors Garnishee Income.
NEW YORK. March SI. (Special.)
No divorce action In recent years has
attracted more attention than the suit
Mrs. E. R. Thomas has brought against
her husband, the ex-multl-mlllloualre
boy banker, plunger, turfman and auto
speed enthusiast. .
Not that It win unexpected, for the
couple have not been living together
for aome time, but the case pertains to
Broadway, as well as Fifth avenue and
Newport, and consequently commands
a general interest, for Mrs. Thomas lias
named as co-respondent Theodora Ge
rard, famed on the "great white way"
as a fascinating musical comedy act
ress, and Mrs. Thomas and her husband
are of society.
Mrs. Thomas is living at Carlton
House, 22 East Forty-seventh street,
and Mr. Thomas is In Paris. He has
made the French capital his home since
the estrangement with his wife. It Is
not known yet whether he will contest
Mrs. Thomas' suit.
Mrs. Thomas Noted Beauty.
The couple were married In 1901.
Mm. Thomas was Miss Linda Lee,
daughter of a Louisville gas magnate,
and one of the Blue Grass state s fa
mous beauties. She is stately, with a
beautiful pink and white complexion
and a wealth of golden hair.
Edward Russell Thomas is the son
of the late General Sam A. Thomas,
who accumulated an Immense fortune
In Southern railroads. When his son
married. Colonel Thomas presented the
bride with a diamond necklace valued
at $60,000. while her husband's gift was
a pretty trifle worth $40,000.
There was nothing of the piker" in
K R. Thomas until reverses overtook
him and compelled the speed-lover to
hit a high pace to keep ahead of his
creditors.
e Deal Too Big.
Through the influence of his father,
young Thomas became president of the
Seventh National Bank. No deal was
too big for the boy bank president to
tackle. He had unlimited credit. His
checks were good anywhere. In those
golden years, from his wedding day
until the financial upheaval of 107,
F. H Thomas w as a thoroughbred sport.
It Is said that lie staked $2,000,000 on
one cotton deal alone. He traveled
around with "Joe" Letter. F. Augustus
Helnze and a lot of other redhot sports
(the name on every piece), and Wall
street and Broadway took notice when
he passed by.
When E. R. wanted a bit of reFt he
flopped on a $10,000 bed in apartments
at the Sr. Regis costing $45,000 a year.
He Insisted on having the air he
breathed and such water as he drank
sterilised. His bathroom was equipped
with hot and cold tooth brushes and a
bathtubola with all the latest and most
popular records.
Money Surely Flevr.
Wee. how the money did fly when
Thomas gave a dinner to a few friends
at Delmonlco's: What he spent on lit
tle automobile favors for his guests
would have paid for the ordinary man's
family touring car and kept it in gaso
line for six months. Thomas was a
motormanlac. If there was one. Special
autoa were constructed to satisfy his
craving for swift travel.
The beginning of the end came when
Thomas was injured In an auto acci
dent at Long Branch in 1908. His leg
waa broken and lie has been a cripple
ever since. The doctors ordered am
putation, but Thomas would have hone
of It. Under the physicians' orders.
Thomas and Mrs. Thomas dawdled
along the Nile In a houseboat for sev
eral months.
After that they drifted spart and the
panic put a dent in the boy banker. He
found himself ehunted off boards of di
rectors he had graced, and his cred
itors put up an unholy howl for money.
What they wanted was $.1,000,000. and
Thomas admitted he was unable to
obllce with the cash. The Sheriff
sought him out and attached what he
could here and there.
laeome la fSfl,0O0.
General Thomas had noted the speedy
methods of his son. and In his will pro
vided his son with $ISO.OOO a year only,
giving the estate of $10,000,000 to the
widow. The widow came to her son's
rescue with $200,000 and his wife mort
gaged her home for $33,000, but these
sums were nothing.
The creditors wanted to take all the
rounx man's Income except $10,000 a
year, but he protested volubly, setting
forth that $10,000 a year wouldn't pay
for cigarettes and cab hire. His life
Insurance cost him $15,000 a year, he
said, and he was obliged to pay $15.
000 a year to a relative. Last January
Thomas confessed Judgment for $1,134.
487. and the court signed an order
garnisheeing his income. Thomas" debts
are now being paid at the rate of $1,
000 a year, under the direction of the
court and Thomas" trustees.
Theodora Gerard, the "other woman"
In the case, was famed aa the exponent
of the Vampire dance in Paris and New
York, hut she Is not working at It Just
now. Mrs. Thomas alleges In her com
plaint that the dancer has been gal
lavanting around Europe with her hus
band. ,
Broadway K anna Teddy.'
In private life Miss Gerard is the
wife of Joseph Raymond. She Is known
to her Intimates on Broadway as
"Teddy." Quite besides her attractive
ness, her alleged resemblance to Evelyn
N'esblt Thaw, and her delineation of
the Vampire dance. Miss Gerard has
earned the calcium of publicity for her
self by various stunts. As a sprightly
English Journal would eay. the follow
ing amusing story is told of Miss
Gerard: When she was dancing at the
Olympic, in Paris, she resented the
tare a Russian Duke, or Alderman, or
Homebody like that, bestowed upon her
In Maxim's, so she busted a. glass of
wine In his face. She did it In a "nice.
J quiet" way. to be sure, but the Russian
was all cut up aouui 11.
Again, friends of Miss Gerard tell
the following amusing stor1 Shortly
after she came to New York she caused
the arrest of George Bronson Howard.
j the playwright, charging him with
waving a piniui at npr 1 1 u anc in
jected his alleged attentions. Subse
quently she dropped the action against
Howard and threatened a fellow play
rcrlbbler. Wilson Mixner. with action
in court to recover $50,000 which she
alleged he had coerced from her. Like
her other charge against "Author
Author," nothing came of her threat
against Mlzner. She never brought the
action.
Besides Miss Gerard. Mrs. Thomas al
leges that her husband has been indis
creet with "divers other" women, but
she confesses her inability to name
them all. She craves an absolute divorce.
MATRONS ARE BARRED
BANK TYPISTS CAXXOT HAVE
HCSBANTJS AXD JOBS, TOO.
Only Maidens and Spinsters Can
Click Tjpewriters and Adding
Machines After April 1.
CHICAGO. March 24. (Special.)
Women employes of the Continental
& Commercial Bank, one of the largest
in Chicago, cannot expect to have hus
bands and Jobs, too, after April 1. Mar
ried women will be barred, says Vice
President Schroeder, for these rea-
! sons:
Business and matrimony do not go
together.
A bank is a business institution, not
a school for matrimony.
Love affairs in bunks should be
thoroughly and timely discouraged.
Married women should be at home,
not at a typewriter or adding machine..
and should not nrroirate the rlchts of
j single women who have to earn their
own living.
"There is a rule in our bank that
when a woman employe gets married
she automatically resigns, added Mr.
'Schroeder. "In February two of our
girls were married. They were per
mitted to retain their Jobs until April,
at their ovn request. All the others
were discharged when the rule went
Into effect.
"After April 1 the hank will have no
married women on its payroll. Wc are
opposed to the hiring of v.omen at all.
but it Is necessitated by a condition."
TWO AVIATORS ARE KILLED
Russian Lieutenant anil , Engineer
Hurled to Sudden Jcatli.
SEBASTOPOL. Russia, March 24. A
double aeroplane fatality occurred hern
today. Sub-Lieutenant Albokrinoff
and his assistant, an engineer, were
making a flight in a biplane at the
flying ground attached to the military
avlatlon school, when the aeroplane
was overturned by a sudden gust ot
wind and hurled to the ground.
The two aviators were instantly
killed and the aeroplane was destroyed.
Lebanon Bank Becomes National.
LEBANON. Or.. March 24. (Special.)
The Lebanon State Bank haa received
a dispatch from the Controller of Cur
rency at Washington authorizing it to
begin doing business as a National
bank, to be known as the Lebanon Na
tional Bark. Application was made by
the stockholders at their annual meet-
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. ANNOUNCEMENT
Mrs. L. C. Redding, expert corsetiere and demon
strator of MO DART CORSETS, the Improved
Front Laced, has arrived, and H'ill spend this week in
our Corset Department explaining and demonstrating
the merits of these wonderful shaping corsets to oar
customers.
Wc take this opportunity of notifying you that we
shall be glad to make a telephone appointment with you
for a filling, and have Mrs. Redding set aside a spe
cial time for you.
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iuch an appointment docs not carry with it any
obligation to purchase, but wc feel that you will want
to see and Ipiow more about these wonderful figure
building corsets, that arc worn by the best-drcssed
women of today.
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Ing In January to convert the bank inte with $33,000 capital and J2000 surplus,
a National banking association and to The bank is but little inore than two
Increase the capital stock from $25,000 years old and has assets above $200,000.
to $3i.000u. Tills was also granted, and
the bank starts out as a National bank Irg Sho-rr office 521 Abln?ton "Rli'g.
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